He kept a sharp eye out for police and eluded capture each time they got close, stringing together more than a decade-and-a-half of freedom that made him the longest escaped inmate in recent Texas ...

Former Gov. Bill Clements, the first Republican governor in Texas since Reconstruction, has died at 94, according to Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst.

Former Gov. Bill Clements, who in 1979 became the first Republican elected governor in Texas since Reconstruction and whose belief that state government should operate like a big business helped ...

Inaugurated in 1979, Clements served two terms as governor despite losing his first re-election bid. The oilman ran Texas under the belief that state government should operate like a big business.

Forty years ago, the political earth moved. At least in Texas. For the first time since 1870, a Republican was elected governor of Texas. Bill Clements came out of nowhere. Sure, he had founded ...

The political design for the Republican majorities that now run Texas government were drawn starting with the election of Bill Clements as governor in the late 1970s.

— Texas Gov. Bill Clements met with a group of Southern Methodist University officials and boosters in 1985 to negotiate an agreement under which the university would never reveal the names of ...

Bill Clements wasn't a typical politician by a long shot, but he changed Texas politics in a big way. In 1978, the Dallas oilman became the first Republican governor since Reconstruction when he ...

Will update as more details emerge, but former Texas Gov. Bill Clements has died. He had reportedly been in declining health in recent years. He was 94. Clements was governor from 1979 to 1983 ...

"I knew they would be looking for me all the time, so I was always watching my back," Salaz said from the William P. Clements Jr. Unit outside Amarillo, where he's being kept in isolation for ...

Bill Clements, a brash Republican millionaire who helped break Democrats’ century-long hold on Texas politics when he was elected governor in 1978, died May 29 at a Dallas area hospital.

— Texas Gov. Bill Clements has contradicted his revelation that he and other Southern Methodist officials agreed in 1985 to continue payments to football players, saying his comments actually ...